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Brides are supposed to make a dramatic entry to their wedding - and Penny Claridge certainly did just that after yesterday's deluge of rain threatened to play havoc with her wedding plans.

Claridge and her two sons were stuck at Kitenga Luxury Bed and Breakfast on North Road between Clevedon and Maraetai in south Auckland yesterday morning after torrential down pours on Friday night and Saturday morning.

Groom Andrew Buchanan, a helicopter pilot, told the Herald on Sunday that with North Road closed at both ends Claridge's arrival at their 4pm ceremony in nearby Ararimu looked uncertain.

"All the roads were closed in and out of there and being her wedding day we needed to get her out," Buchanan said.

At Kawakawa Bay residents were still reeling from the month of rain that fell in one night on Tuesday.

Kawakawa Bay Kindergarten was almost totally destroyed in the first downpour mid-week after a tidal creek at the back of the building flooded, head teacher Lisa Carlin said.

The latest downpour further impacted on the massive clean-up job.

More than 500 children's books worth $3000, puzzles, pictures, and CDs have been ruined by the downpours and associated flooding, which has also water-logged furniture, damaged computers and up-ended outdoor equipment.

"We have to relocate the kindergarten and children to the community hall. It's going to take about three months to get it up and running again."

At nearby Hunua and Clevedon, homes and farms were flooded and farmers lost hundreds of lifestock to surging waters - as well as the torrents ruining fences and destroying silage bales.

In the Coromandel, hundreds of revellers at the Sundaise Festival had to be evacuated late on Friday night after flood waters threatened the venue near Waihi.

The Army helped evacuate festival-goers, some who had to brave water up to chest height to escape.

In the Auckland region, a seawall on Aramoana Ave in Devonport sustained damage and authorities laid sandbags on the shoreline to prevent more damage. Slips also occured on Waiheke Island, one which threatened a house.

And last night's session of the Auckland Arts Festival show Power Plant was cancelled due to concerns about the weather.

The MetService and Civil Defence last night warned there would be no respite today from the terrible weather, with high winds are set to batter the North Island today,.

Potentially damaging winds, gusting up to 120km/h, are expected to reach their worst in Auckland early afternoon, with risks of small tornadoes in coastal areas.